Madison nonprofits awarded more than $600,000 in grants

MADISON (WKOW) -- Twenty-two local nonprofits can now deepen their community impact thanks to new funding awarded Monday.

The Madison Community Foundation (MCF) announced $605,000 in grants to organizations in the Madison area, aimed at supporting the expansion of their charitable work and cultural development of the community.

"It’s ... very important that we have major institutions paying artists, keeping them here," Tom Linfield, MCF community impact vice president, said. "We don’t want to lose our artists to other bigger cities. We have the richness and we have the variety, and we want to keep them here and continue to make Madison quite extraordinary."...